Romantic Readers: The Evidence of MarginaliaWhen readers jot down notes in their books, they reveal something of themselves—what they believe, what amuses or annoys them, what they have read before. But a close examination of marginalia also discloses diverse and fascinating details about the time in which they are written. This book explores reading practices in the Romantic Age through an analysis of some 2,000 books annotated by British readers between 1790 and 1830. |
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... once had and to unfit us for interpreting documents of this order. A study of such documents, historically focused, ought to go some way toward correcting that tendency. But interpretation requires context and in this case the most ...
... once have owned only a Bible , with perhaps a few broadsides and chapbooks , now enjoyed a more varied reading diet and demanded nov- elty . The census - taker John Rickman complained in 1812 that “ Every one who reads at all reads a ...
... once had in stock 10,000 copies of Watts's hymns ( Memoirs , 230 ) . Did Paine really sell 200,000 copies of the second part of The Rights of Man ( 1792 ) in a year ? This spectacular number , constantly repeated , rests on what the ...
... once . A severe blow to the London cartels , this decision had two im- mediate and long - lasting effects , both with happy consequences for readers : it improved the status of the author , and it opened the door— some would say , the ...
... once the expenses were recovered . ( Scott complained that even under this sensible compromise the publisher generally contrived “ to take the lion's share of the booty " [ Letters , 6:45 ] . And yet he invariably recom- mended shared ...
Contents
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60 | |
2 Socializing with Books | 121 |
3 Custodians to Posterity | 198 |
4 The Reading Mind | 249 |
Conclusion | 299 |
Notes | 307 |
Bibliography of Books with Manuscript Notes | 325 |
Bibliography of Secondary Sources | 340 |
Index | 353 |